Honourable Minister of State, FCT

Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide is currently the Honourable Minister of State FCT.

In May 2001-September 2003 she served as the Special Assistant to the President on FCT matters and later as Special Assistant to the President on G77 matters and Nigerians in Diaspora (NIDO).

She was the Managing Partner of AKINJIDE & CO. Barristers, Solicitors, and Arbitrators, one of the leading Nigerian commercial law firms. She has extensive post-qualifications experience, principally in petroleum, company and commercial law; she is an experienced Arbitrator and Mediator Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide has supervision and management experience with a proven track record of successfully driving strategies and initiatives. She has dynamic leadership qualities and is a team player.

She is also a grassroots politician of high repute and was a candidate for the senate seat, Oyo Central Senatorial District on the PDP platform in 2011. Academically, Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide achieved First Class Honours in the English Solicitors Final Examinations.

She holds an LLB (Hons) Second Class Upper Degree from Kings College, London University, and Masters Degree in Law (LLM) from Harvard Law School, USA. She has dual qualifications as Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and as a Solicitor of England and Wales.

She worked with Simmons & Simmons, one of the top ten firms of Solicitors in the City of London. She is a member of the Section on Energy and Natural Law of the International Bar Association; the Nigerian Bar Association; the Chairperson for West Africa for Association of International Petroleum Negotiations AIPN; the Institute of Petroleum (UK) and the Nigerian Economic Summit Group. She was also a Director, Abuja Investments Company Limited AICL from 2008-2011.

She was nominated by the National Council on Privatization as a member of the;

• Legal framework and Regulatory matters sub-committee of the Oil and Gas Sector Reform Implementation Committee

• Aviation Sector Reform Implementation Committee.

Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide is the founder of Newman Conference, Training and Events Managers, a Nigerian based private company which develops, facilitates and runs programmes for the continuing development of professionals with particular emphasis on the Energy and Legal Sectors. She has spoken at several law conferences and written on diverse topics; these include, but not limited to the following;

• Investment Opportunities for Oil Service Companies in Nigeria (1996)

• Legal Aspect of International Environmental Protection (1996)

• Current Legal issues for Gas Production and Utilization in Nigeria (1997)

• The office of the Company Director-Right, Duties and Liabilities (1998)

• Corporate Social Responsibilities in the Petroleum Industry (1999)

• Legal Framework of the Petroleum Industry (2000)

• The Nigerian Power Sector; An industry in Transition (2001)

• Local content provision of professional legal service in the petroleum industry (2004)

• Good Governance and Africa's Development (2007) • Mandatory minimum continuing legal education (2007)

Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide is a Philanthropist per excellence and has offered through her foundation-The Olajumoke Akinjide Foundation, free surgical operations and medical care to thousands of people in Oyo Central Senatorial District. The Foundation also provides FREE NECO Examination forms to hundreds of indigent students in the Senatorial District.

In 2002, she was conferred with the Chieftaincy title of Iya Yeye of Ona Ara by the Olubadan of Ibadan land. Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide is highly resourceful, responsible and self motivated. Her motto and guiding principle is "To Be the Best and Excel Others" She is married and blessed with three children.